Lie Quotes

There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.

Assyrian Prove

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Thomas Fulle

J. P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,

It will fluctuate.

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al - Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

Osama Bin Laden, BBC

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Sir Winston Churchill

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one.

David A. Cronin

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

C. Chesterfield

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Richard von Weizscke

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylo

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Orison Swett Marden

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D. H. Lawrence

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.

Woody Allen

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Sir Henry Wotton

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alfred Alde

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits.

Carl Sagan

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

Michael Crichton, Prey

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.

Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good and Evil

The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Dorothy Parke

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Fran Lebowitz

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Barbara Bush

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Havelock Ellis